How do you organize your bods?

So I decided to dabble in BODs...smithy bods to be exact. I immediately see an issue with me. I'm very OCD. I use 7 spreadsheets to handle my IRL money, so I wanna do something similar with my bods.

Does anyone have suggestions on a spreadsheet template to organize the bods i'm gonna be collecting?

7 spreadsheets? I don't get it.

Yeah most people don't. I keep track of every single aspect of my incoming and outgoing money. I have 2 bank accounts, daily and weekly quotas for what I need to make in cash at each of my jobs, and schedules for transferring money between my bank accounts.

I have Faber take care of them.....dammit.

I classify by BODS in their reward type. For example tailor I have specialty smalls (6p male/female), special mask large, ore mask large, hanging leather, foot wear, cbd's, flips, book of crap......large and small bone,studded, and other undesirable reward types. Blacksmith is the same with books for standing armor, hammers, braziers, phoenix armor, hanging shields, flips, and book of crap. Simply drop the BOD into the book it belongs to. Knowing all the smalls that go to which reward type really helps this process.This way I can see them by reward type and can match up form there. Obviously you can use a excel spread sheet, but I have over 3k bods and this system work great for me. Not to mention I don't have to continually update a sheet, 18 times a day.... yea I said 18!

#BOD4Life

4 books per ore. One for all smalls... One for each of 10/15/20 large bods. Footwear are 3 books. All specials go in one book. I'll show you my layout when I'm online.

a single BoD (can be) a means to a desired end

organizing by that desire will better help you focus on your overall goal (one would assume) you made by taking up BoDing in the first place



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When I saw this thread, my first instinct was to say: "Are you insane? Run away from BoD's as fast as you can and save yourself!"

I organize them all into a book and then give them to someone who is crazy.

Yeah I've been told that they get addictive. I got bored last night so I thought I'd try one and one hit was all it took.

I don't get it. Nothing sounds fun about going to a npc shop X times per day to get a bod. Organizing all the bods seems like a monumental hassle. Actually filling the bods is basically grinding labor work. The good part = the reward. I can buy the reward.

I must be a minority though, because I can travel to every shop in the land and find 50 leather dye tubs, 500 gold spears, bod cloth, CBDs, and other bod-junk, but not one single "ladder" or "boat". So you guys must be bodding it up.

Even if you don't fill, collecting bods are a way to get a good ROI (return on investment) on your tailor or smith. Essentially each bod is worth around 1k. Some are worth WAY more. I collect around 18 a day......takes me 3 mins and I never leave guard zone. I would have thought you trammys would have figured that shit out by now.

Yeah that sounds like "not fun at all" to me.

I rarely pick them up now but I went at it the other year at a rate that was 'serious' for me. No where near 18 a day. I made a BOD workbook where I list my smalls on one tab and my larges on another. Per profession that is. Then I vlookup so I know which larges can be filled. Then, as is my way, I never fill them. But it warms my heart to know that I could.

The sheets could be improved. I was going to add in something to auto fill out the rewards but never bothered. It's easy enough to look it up, since I copied those in as other sheets.

Old program called "UOBod" I found years ago on stratics site (either on the forum or their tools section, I forget which0. It's fairly handy for entering the bods you get into so you can keep track of which LBODs you're getting close to filling and all that good stuff.

Just make sure you don't accidentally open the program twice and save the wrong database (overwriting the accurate one) and then have to start all over re-entering them all like I did... that's a pain... wouldn't recommend it. It's also a good idea to back up your UOBod database on occasion so you don't lose it. When you have 500+ bods it's annoying to have to re-enter them all.

Here's the site: http://www.uobod.de/

Spreadsheets work well too I'm sure, I use spreadsheets for damn near everything else, but I prefer UOBod for BOD tracking. The rewards listed in the program are not accurate though for this shard. Here are a couple links that show the rewards:

Blacksmith Rewards: http://www.uorenaissance.com/info/bod/smith.html
(The mining gloves are no longer rewards though, replaced by golem shovels).

Tailoring Rewards: http://www.uorenaissance.com/info/bod/tailor.html

List of tailoring outfits: http://tor.bplaced.net/bodt-out.htm

Hope that all helps. That program, those links, and some of the BOD guides on the UOR forum really helped me a ton when getting into BODs here

Seconded

That's twice! You are good werkwerk

I use 1 spreadsheet to handle my IRL money, and used 4 to handle my BODs. Priorities.

Because of filtering, I think books by reward type make sense.

I would suggest *not* logging them outside of the game. It's an insane waste of time in my opinion and you're just asking to make errors, trading the farm for a 20xValoritePlateGorget only to remember you got one last month and forgot to log it in your spreadsheet. When there was someone I hadn't traded with in a while, I'd go through my books and write down what I was missing. If your books are organized well, it's easy and it's less prone to errors (in my experience) than trying to stay focused and updating a sheet 18 times a day.

One question... Theres a way to do reverse ingineer that?

Example, i have a 15 exp leather gorget. How i how if its a good or not? Like something that can tell me the possible reward ( without using the tailoring matrix) ?

After sacrificing hundreds of hours to the BoD gods, you instinctively know the 15exp Leather Gorget is for T3 cloth or a 50/50 chance at a tub/CBD in an LBoD.